I just played the plastic guitar for an entire day for the first time in a LONG time

[atalkingfish]

Good news:
- It was way fun. I played for several hours without really realizing it
- I never got bored and never played the same song twice
- It was challenging
- It made my hand hurt

Bad news:
- It was GH:WoR

::BEFORE YOU READ AND MAKE AN UNINFORMED REPLY::
This is not a "RB3 sucks, GH is awesome" thread, this is a "For those of you who enjoy RB3, but want more of a challenge, you should try opening your mind to GH:WoR because it doesn't suck as much as it seems.

The reason I post this here is because after playing the new GH game, I've gained an interesting perspective on RB3.

-- START DISCLAIMER --
I am a long time RB supporter. I pre-ordered RB1. I played RB2, like, every day for two years. Fun stuff. I was crazy excited when keys were announced, and I love the addition of that peripheral.
-- END DISCLAIMER --

In an attempt to keep this focused on Rock Band, since this is the Rock Band forum, I'll say it like this:
Rock Band doesn't have incredibly challenging songs for 5-button guitar. There hasn't been a song for 5BG (can I call it that? 5BG?) that I've been like "Can I pass this? Holy crap that was hard, and this song sounds great!". And it's not like I need crazy freak out songs, but where is the challenge? When I was playing RB3, I wasn't saying "I need hard songs with responsive hammer-ons", but when they were presented to me, they felt great.

Let me summarize, in "IF, IF, IF, THEN" form:
IF you have RB3 and think it's fun,
IF you liked playing the harder RB2 songs,
IF you can't spend more than 2 hours on RB3 by yourself without getting bored,
THEN you should maybe think about expanding your music game library.

On the other hand:
IF you are a crazy die-hard RB fan who can't accept anything else,
IF you think buying GH means NOT playing RB,
IF you are protesting Activision in any way (understandable),
THEN you can ignore this thread

--- ONE MORE DISCLAIMER ---
I LIKE RB3! I HAVE PAID LOTS OF MONEY FOR IT AND ITS DLC!
-- GOT IT? ---

[Gigakoops]

I can agree. Where the hell are the challenging songs, HMX?!? I won't accept Satch Boogie as the hardest song on guitar, because it has one hard section that lasts less than a minute, so where's the challenge? Some bands you could use are Dragonforce, Dream Theater, and Buckethead. I named some pretty good bands with challenging songs right there. So HMX, if you read, this, try to put some challenge in Rock Band.

[Jglaubman]

What about people who play the game for the music and not for a challenge? (which I would guess is about 90% of people)

[JoshVanHalen87]

What about people who play the game for the music and not for a challenge? (which I would guess is about 90% of people)

this!! by far

[blastissimo218]

Have you been catching up to DLCs lately?
Guitars Suck-Bumblefoot
Nihilanth-Gatling
Snow (hey oh)-RHCP
Burn-Mike Orlando
XIV-Chaotrope
Battle Royale-The Word Alive
Thasher-Evile
COUGH*MEGADETH*COUGH

Just to name a few.


Yes, RB doesn't have enough insane guitar charts.

[MooTrain]

it's not like I need crazy freak out songs, but where is the challenge?

Llama (to boot, to boot)

[Gigakoops]

Have you been catching up to DLCs lately?
Guitars Suck-Bumblefoot
Nihilanth-Gatling
Snow (hey oh)-RHCP
Burn-Mike Orlando
XIV-Chaotrope
Battle Royale-The Word Alive
Thasher-Evile
COUGH*MEGADETH*COUGH

Just to name a few.


Yes, RB doesn't have enough insane guitar charts.

Most of these songs aren't really really hard. He's probably looking the direction of TtFaF and stuff. In that case, only Guitars SUCK, Nihilanth and Burn would fit this, and I think he meant from HMX themselves, not RBN.

[Pitch-Black]

Each person is going to define challenging differently. And if you were to ask most people I think you might find that song difficulty is not what they look for first anyway. Speaking from the perspective of an amateur musician/songwriter I can say that amount of difficulty in a guitar part is not the goal, but how it sounds. I think the majority of "difficult" songs are metal and the like. Not everyone cares for that. Also, some songs in harder tiers end up being no fun to play for some players.

[Mashley]

The hammer-on system in Rock Band sucks though, hard songs aren't fun unless the system works.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

The hammer-on system in Rock Band sucks though, hard songs aren't fun unless the system works.

This is pretty much the same ho/po system they've been using since GH2.

Let me guess...GH3 was your first music game right?